Posted by: Melvin () on Fri Oct 4 08:40:31 2002

As a high school baseball coach I have used the griffey swing the past 2 years with great success. As a matter of fact, I am interested in purchasing approximately 15-20 of them. This is no joke. I would like to know of someplace to purchase them at a substantial discount. I am not interested in the youth models. Any ideas?
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> Quite frankly I wonder if this is yet another prank?
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> (1) How can you buy "the griffey swing"?
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> (2) Almost any high school coach should know there is no such thing as "great success" in teaching a team of position players how to hit like a particular player. To tinker with even one player's swing requires countless hours of time for both the player and the coach, more time than is possible, at least for the coach. And how do you define "great success"? How do you get feedback (before & after video analysis?
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> (3) Griffey has almost no "L" in his swing at contact. Maybe his style works for him, but he is NOT a good model.

Folks

I have to disagree. Ken Griffey Jr. shows a lot of top arm 'L' at contact in many photos and videotapes I have seen.

He has a mechanically superior swing that utilizes pre-bat movement, a swing that arcs the bat head backward before pivoting it around a stationary bottom hand, and a circular hand path.

All of these things make him a fine model that can be used to compare and contrast lesser swings. There is nothing about the swing that I find "unworkable."

Melvin